Quotes About Introspection

Spring and Fall" …cannot be said to be about depression - but of course, to someone who is depressed, everything is about depression. …For some of us, the sadness running under the skin of things begins as a trickle and ends up a hemorrhage, staining everything.

You see, down here, where life hangs heavy like a suffocating cloak, I can't remember that I've ever felt any other way. I need to be reminded that there are reasons in the world to hold on, even if I have forgotten them; I tell myself if I can just hold on I will remember them, these reasons, they will come back to me.

Ben, everything is going to get better, he heard her say in the void. Really. It has to get better, because it can't get worse. Ben opened his eyes with a jolt, staring at himself in the mirror. That's not true, he suddenly thought. It can definitely get worse. As he nodded at Sara and pretended to smile, he understood that it was the first intelligent thought he had ever had.

Back in high school, I never understood how Amy could enjoy getting with guys just for the short haul. In a way, though, making out like this is more enjoyable because there's no pressure for me to not do or say anything stupid. What's the worst that can happen if I do? So I'm freer to focus on what I'm feeling, not what he feels about me.

I wonder how many more penises I'll have inside me in my lifetime.

Self-hate is rarely unconditional.

The muffling blanket would fall over my thoughts.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!

There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.

I know who the demon thief is - it's me!

Doubt finds its way into all men's hearts.

I choose not to fight — it doesn't mean I can't ! I'm no heroic vampire, but I'm not the useless coward many think I am. If you fought more often, they wouldn't think that, I noted. True, he admitted. But their opinion doesn't matter. Kurda put his fingers on my chest and pressed softly down on my heart. In here is where a man should judge himself, not on bars or in a ring or on a battlefield. If you know in your heart that you're true and brave, that should be enough.

Maybe I should end it all before I regress.

But knowing me the way I do (now that sounds weird!)

anybody who started hunting for evidence of insanity in himself would certainly find plenty ? Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch 20

Los indicios de chifladura son bien sencillos de encontrar, y cuanto más ahondamos en nosotros mismos, más salen a relucir.

You're old enough to know that everybody except very crazy people and very stupid people suspect themselves now and then – or whenever they happen to think about it – of not being exactly sane. ? Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch XIX

You can't walk out on yourself.

looking at Spade with cobalt-blue eyes that were both shy and probing.

He could even think about how fast he was thinking about things.

For all I know, some of my close friends could be dead. The only way to find out would be to call them up and talk to them about what's going on in their lives, and I never do that. I think this is true of many guys, even the ones who are not Humor Personalities: we do not view talking about our personal lives as an acceptable activity.

Those who simply put their head down and power through this unsung province [Saskatchewan] are denying themselves its subtle powers.

I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.

It all meant something. Until it didn't.